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Tony G Themes for Your PartyPoker Client

My fellow grinders, Tony G is all over the place. Literally. PartyPoker's sponsored pro is now available as an online table decoration for PartyPoker's players. If you'd like some "G" spirit on your virtual tables, now is your time.

There are 3 versions available to download:

A classic black

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Want to Beat Up Domenech? Now You Can in Poker

French people hate Raymond Domenech, France's former national soccer team coach with passion. After the man made many bad decisions and had his team eliminated in the group stages of the South African World Cup, he got fired and is a target for many people. Well, now he's teamed up with Bwin, offering the haters the chance to beat him up at poker.

Truly brilliant move from Bwin this is, being advertised at Bwin.fr, they will surely have many challangers who want to beat Domenech badly. Here's the promotion's "trailer", what I find a bit cheesy and makes me uncomfortable in a way, but hey, we're talking about French...

The Godfather of Online Poker (Part VII)

Part VII of Eponymous’ Photoshop comic strip ‘The Godfather of Online Poker’ has arrived: a peace treaty is made between the poker rooms and Patrik assumes control of the Corleones. 

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Poker Pros Congratulate Duhamel

As I posted, Jonathan Duhamel won the 2010 WSOP Main Event, earning just around $9 million after defeating John Racener HU. Immediately, the social media was crammed with congratulations and various reactions from poker pros and the community; here is but a few of these.

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Jonathan Duhamel

His fellow countryman Daniel Negreanu, although probably a bit disappointed, remarked on his Twitter that Duhamel was both the sixth PokerStars pro and the first Canadian to win the WSOP: “Just woke up and saw that PokerStars has now produced 6 of the last 8 WSOP champs and Canada its 1st. Congrats kid!"

Atlantic City Resorts to Adopt Boardwalk Empire Theme

Have you seen HBO's hit show, the "Boardwalk Empire"? I personally love the era it is set in, the 1920s. If you also do, you will love this news. Atlantic City Resorts will adopt a Boardwalk Empire-like theme for their casino by December this year.

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The Atlantic City Resorts  in front

The venue is located in the exact same spot, which was once the boardwalk. Previous owners couldn't catch up with the competition, they were failing to pay the mortgage and had to sell the venue, which was quickly bought by Morris Bailey and Dennis Gomes, who had great plans in mind for the casino, which is currently under construction.

Jonathan Duhamel Wins 2010 WSOP Main Event

Jonathan Duhamel has won the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event. The Canadian pro plalyed very well, used his huge chip lead against John Racener winning the $8,944,310 main prize and the bracelet.

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Jonathan Duhamel with his friends

The most important poker event of the year started at 8 p.m. PT. The audience could witness the enshrinement of Erik Seidel And Dan Harrington into the Poker Hall of Fame as promised, and Frank Kassela also received his '2010 WSOP Player of The Year' title.

Pokerb00m.eu Involved in Tekintamgac Scandal?

WPT Barcelona 2010 champion Ali Tekintamgac was disqualified from the PPT Cannes main event final table after suspicion arose that Pokerb00m.eu bloggers helped him achieve his 4th place in the event. The blog is currently “under maintenance.”

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Ali Tekintamgac wins IPT Venice

After checking video footage of the qualifying day, event management concluded that certain “press members” provided Tekintamgac with information regarding his opponents’ hole cards. The poker player’s associates allegedly were fake journalists of the Pokerb00m.eu blog and were there to help him in the first place. The local police now use the recordings for their investigation.

WSOP Final Table - Duhamel and Racener in the Heads-Up

Jonathan Duhamel will face John Racener in the heads-up at the WSOP Main Event final table later today. Duhamel is in an enormous chip lead, he has over 180 million chips against Racener's 30 million.

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The event kicked off at exactly at 3 p.m. last Sunday when Bruce Buffer, renowned presenter announced the beginning of the finals.The Las Vegas Rio Casino was full by this time, many poker pros and celebrities visited the event, such as Barry Greenstein, Mike Matusow, Tom Marchese, Sorel Mizzi, Carter King, J.C. Tran, Nam Le, Karina Jett, and of course the whole Mizrachi family, supporting the most successful Mizrachi.

Play Online Poker, It's Safer - Banned Commercial

You are not going to believe this. PokerStars (that's right, the largest poker site in the world) released this commercial recently. Almost instantly they removed it, but it was already too late. It's very successful at YouTube at the moment, PokerStars tries to remove all of the uploads, but we all know it's futile. This commercial is not for the faint hearted, watch with care. (If the video is deleted, just search for "Banned PokerStars Commercial").

WSOP Final Table Live Stream at ESPN

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As I previously announced, the WSOP Main Event final table starts tomorrow. Thankfully, we don't have to wait for the TV show to see the action itself, starting from this year, ESPN will broadcast the event live (with a 5 minute delay) on their website.

The live stream can be found at ESPN3.com, and will be live from Nov 6 Saturday at 3 p.m. ET. The coverage will continue with the heads-up play with the final two on Monday, Nov 8 at 11:30 p.m. ET.

WSOP Main Event Final Table is Finally Here

I'm sure you are all eager to watch this year's biggest event in poker: the WSOP Main Event final table. That's right, it's officially here, the final table starts tomorrow with all the november niners battling for the huge, $8,944,138 main prize. Set at the Rio Casino in Las Vegas, the World Championship of Poker will start tomorrow and we will have our newest champion by November 9.

The identity of the 9 finalists is known since this July, but there must some of you might not be aware who are in, so I decided to collect some interesting facts about the november niners for you, courtesy of WSOP.com.

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Jared Huggins - One Step Closer to The Big Game

Remember Jared Huggins? Last time I wrote about him he was on his was to a better life thanks to Two Plus Two forum users, finally living in a rented apartment. He got a new chance from life, and now he has even more coming: He released his audition video for PokerStars' The Big Game.

Backed by Daniel Negreanu and Justin 'BoostedJ' Smith, the once homeless player can easily star as the "loose cannon" in PokerStars' hit TV show. You can watch his video below, and if you go to this site, you can vote for Huggins. I think the poor fella deserves it, if you are a registered PokerStars member, go ahead and click vote for him!

High Stakes Profits of October: Durrrr on the Top, Ziigmund Loses Big

Tom ’durrrr’ Dwan wins the most in October, earning $990,000, while Ilari ‘Ziigmund’ Sahamies loses over $1.7 million.

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Tom 'durrrr' Dwan

Having around $1 million in profit already at the beginning of October, durrrr eventually won $991,318 by the end of the month. He clearly dominated the PLO tables, winning $1.2 million in 2784 hands, but he was also successful in 7-game, winning $96,619. Hold’em (both fix- and no-limit), however, cost him $310,000 in total.

Rakerace.com Site Review

As you can see, we have had a banner on the right for some time now, promoting one of the biggest affiliate sites called Rakerace.com. Their main goal is to collect the greatest payback offers possible, as well as to provide exclusive rake races to their members in online rooms like Everest Poker, Poker Heaven, Betsson Poker, Ladbrokes Poker, Chocolate Poker etc.

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Providing news, poker strategy articles, room reviews and extensive race analysis, Rakerace.com also organises exclusive rake races on a regular basis. These also come with extra rakeback and sign-up bonus offers, which means it is more than worth registering. Moreover, the site offers over $30,000 per month in exclusive promotions, daily stats update and 24/7 customer support. In case you are a novice poker player and feel getting confused about terminology, a detailed FAQ session answers your questions in terms of rakeback and rake races. Are you a US citizen? No problem: Rakerace.com filters rooms for you that welcome residents of the United States.

Smoking Ban Soon in Vegas Casinos?

Has it ever come to you that at smoking casinos dealers are second-hand smoking all day long? Well, Wynn employees have had enough of it, and filed a lawsuit against their employer. A federal judge ruled that the Plaintiffs can proceed with the filing of their lawsuit against Wynn casinos, who seemingly failed to protect them from the dangers caused by second-hand smoking for prolonged times.

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Is the time of smoking casinos over?

The case is interesting because Wynn Resorts LTD. wanted the dismissal of the suit, claiming it is not their duty in Nevada state to protect their employees from second-hand smoking, and they also questioned the court's jurisdiction in such a case. Unfortunately for Wynn, the judge disagreed with the the casino's legal department, and allowed the Plaintiffs to proceed with the case.

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